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不可思議的東京太空漫遊，超多東京的3D模型橫跨360視野。

#360video

3 Dreams of Black (Chrome Experiment)

設計給滑鼠操作網頁瀏覽器的互動式MV，儘管是過去的作品，但這件作品創作過程開發的技術，如動物3D模型和Shader都開放原始碼給大家使用，大大展現 WebGL 的威力和開放的精神。

#webgl #Interactive website

AnimaStage: Hands-on Animated Craft on Pin-based Shape Displays (DIS 2017)

MIT Media Lab Tangible Media Group inFORM 系列新作，利用簡單的上上下下移動，化為動畫場景舞台。

#tangibles #prototyping

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toio

Programmable robotics toy from SONY uses small minimalist blocks with personality, allowing to be creative with papercraft:

Another video here better presents how you can use a controller and even create your own sumo robots:

From Spoon & Tamago:

Build, play, inspire. That’s the idea behind Sony’s new toy for kids, designed to inspire a future generation of robotics engineers. Toio is the result of 5 years of research into developing a toy that’s simple enough for kids to use, but also sophisticated enough to create a figurative sandbox where kids can explore the inner-workings of robotics engineering.

Toio, at first glance, is stunningly simple: the core of the toy is just 2 white cubes with wheels. But don’t be fooled by their appearance. The tiny cubes pack a whole lot of tech. They respond to motion, are able to detect the exact location of the other, and can be programmed but also remote controlled.

You can find out more at the official Toio website here

Highly recommend following the Spoon & Tamago blog here

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很喜歡結合紙片讓簡單的機器人變得更神奇，突然有了形體和生命！

#robots #tangibles

見る・聴くデザインから、“触れるデザイン”へ。HAPTIC DESIGN（ハプティックデザイン）とは、身体を通じて自己と世界をつなぐ「触覚（＝HAPTIC）」に基づく新たなデザイン分野。グラフィック、UX、ファッション、建築など、さまざまな分野に広がる最新デザインの世界へようこそ。

日本匯集做觸覺介面的設計師與研究者齊聚同堂，這麼偏門的領域覺得滿神奇的！

#haptics

(via Haptic Helpers: bringing you to your senses - YouTube)

Google 搞笑的 VR 觸覺小幫手，但實際上人機互動也有相關的研究論文， Haptic Turk 和 TurkDeck 也是用人力幫忙。

#virtual reality #haptics

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落書きの原理について｜About a Theory of Graffiti

Installation by yang02 is a large plotter drawing machine that draws with water onto concrete blocks, with marks decided by an AI trained on graffiti marks:

[Extract taken from GQ Japan - online translation:]

“There is a style graffiti called” slow-up “that instantly draws pop shapes with a simple outline, but we gathered a lot of coordinate data of that line and learned machine learning that Mr. Keiko Sakamoto (Nihon Unisys) constructed I attempted to let the program learn the characteristics of the line and tried to make the line of modeling like slow-up to be autonomously generated on the device.I know well that many throw-ups drawn in town are watching But I feel that it is also the style of beauty, with its frequented formative features such as how to break the trends.The architecture of the database has been systematized in the writer. ”

… The point is based on a machine learning system (Artificial Intelligence) to learn how to carry a graffiti (an artificial intelligence), and the device is only generated by the water sensors, and the device is only in the world by the water sensors. It is said that if it was wet and wet and wet, it was a long way to make a fan of a fan.

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結合水泥風乾的概念，呈現運算的快與自然的慢。

#art installation #machine learning #fabrication #slow technology

Automato - TraiNNing Cards

今天影像辨識、語音辨識等技術很大的仰賴類神經網路，相對於 top-down 以規則來辨識的原理，是一種 bottom-up 以大量資料學習的方式。但是對於類神經網路到底學到了什麼，我們依舊很難知道。

於是我們和機器的關係似乎和過去截然不同， Automato 創作了批判設計的作品，設計一系列卡片，就像如同背單字時的記憶卡，用來訓練機器學習。我們和機器一起共生，一起互相照顧，一起長大。

同工作室更早的作品 Teacher of Algorithms (2015) 則探討當每個演算法都需要時間學習，也需要找好老師來補習的世界。

(via TraiNNing Cards – Flash cards to train your machines / @automato_farm)

#machine learning #neural networks #critical design

Muscle-plotter: an Interactive System based on EMS that Produces Spatial Output

德國 HPI 人機互動實驗室的 Pedro Lopes 做了一連串關於 EMS （Electrical muscle stimulation 電擊刺激肌肉）介面的研究，EMS 的特色在於，直接刺激動作讓人體感受到引導，同時肌肉也能夠主動運動，實現「輸入和輸出合一」，也更邁向人機共生。

EMS 從過去引導動作，到在 VR 中給予回饋，這次 Muscle-plotter 將其運用在理解資訊的能力上，讓使用者需要科學繪圖時，透過電腦即時運算出正確的圖，引導手上下些微移動，畫出汽車風洞模擬圖、數學函數曲線、物理透鏡折射光等。

如此直接的資訊傳遞，更接近於 Andy Clark 在 Natural-Born Cyborgs 書中提到擴增認知 (extended cognition) 概念，人類已經接近於無意識到這個工具的存在，直接變成我們思考與行動的一部分。

#ems #symbiosis #cyborg #extended cognition #electrical muscle stimulation #Human-Computer Interaction #research

Telexistence

「遠距現身」一直是人類追求的理想之一，從電話到視訊，不同的實驗室也在嘗試新的取向。

Physical Telepresence (inFORM Shape Display) 2014

MIT Media Lab 創造一個會變形的桌子，由很多上下移動的柱子組成，就像是實體2.5D的像素。遠距的人可以現身在這些實體像素，甚至可以移動遠方的一顆球。

Haptoclone (Airborne Ultrasonic Haptic Hologram) 2015

然而2.5D的像素不能脫離桌面，日本東京大學的實驗室嘗試放棄物質本身，直接顯示出「觸覺」，對應到立體光場投影影像。利用超音波震動空氣，對焦在3D空間中的位置。

我曾經實際到實驗室體驗，展示包含遠距握手，以及遠距推一顆氣球。實際上距離握手的觸感還非常遠，只是空氣吹氣的感覺。這些像素點的解析度過低，感覺起來一顆一顆的，不過可以想像未來會做得更小。在半空中感受到觸覺，是未曾感受過的。然而超音波究竟能展現出多豐富的觸覺，是待研究的。完全拋棄物質材料特性，意味著我們必須拆解觸覺為基本元素，來組成更廣泛的觸覺，就像是拆解成 RGB 來組成所有光線。

#telexistence #telepresence #tangible #haptics #hologram

Supergraphics | Fardan Munshi

Supergraphics is a set of posters that visualize super human abilities in geometric designs.

常常想著其實人機互動就是一個想像與實現超能力的領域，視訊即是瞬間移動的一種實現；捕捉360影像，有如搭乘時光機。讓我想到 Enchanted Objects 這本書中，整理各種科技發明，都是在實現幾個人類終極的超能力願望。

(via All The Best Superpowers, Visualized as Geometric Designs - Wired)

#superpowers #poster #graphic design

Being there -- sensor data to sensory superpowers: Gershon Dublon at TEDxWarwick 2014 (YouTube)

An interface that invites you not demands you.

作者於 MIT Media Lab Responsive Environments 研究，探討今日使用手機只用到眼睛和手指，讓自己到另一個虛擬世界，但是對於達到 presence（親臨現場）的感覺，還包含各種感官的體驗。

DoppelLab 記錄 Media Lab 實驗室中各種感應器的資訊，如環境資訊溫度、濕度，與人與人交流走動的資訊，轉換資訊為其他感官接收。ListenTree 則是透過身體和樹木的接觸聽到聲音，探討數位資訊將會融入自然之中。呼應著 Mark Weiser 所說：

Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods.

#human-computer interaction #interfaces #sensors #presence

Responsive Surfaces Workshop by IALab Bartlett UCL.

A 2 week workshop held in Xuzhou China in 2016

如果環繞我們四周的表面都會與我們互動呢？這個工作坊探索了會改變形狀的不同形式，日常東西似乎都被注入了生命，也看到數位資訊如何被融入不同材質。

Interactive Architecture Lab 探索人與環境的互動關係，開發了 Golem Kit 快速製作出大型氣動裝置，製作觸覺的穿戴式裝置，最近也開始探討舞蹈與數位的關係。

#shape-changing #responsive environment #interactive architecture

A piece of Art as big as India – Joel Gethin Lewis

這件計畫的名稱很直接，透過AR創造出一個和國家一樣大的雕塑，如此的野心和包覆建築物的 Christo and Jeanne-Claude 一樣大。

(via Prototyping a subcontinent scale sculpture in A-Frame - Mozilla Hacks)

#augmented reality #sculpture #participatory art

New web project by the creators of BLA BLA and Just a Reflektor. A walk in the woods by Vincent Morisset, Philippe Lambert, Édouard Lanctôt-Benoit & Caroline Robert (AATOAA). Produced by the NFB & France TV.